Engineer, builder, team lead.
Senior Associate at Cognizant with 15 years in software — the last five leading a team of 14 driving innovation in QA, Test Data Management, and Generative AI. I build production Gen AI tools and ship measurable wins: 80% efficiency gains on data masking, 40% testing coverage improvement, 50% query-time reductions. Award-winning IBM Call for Code 2020 Best Asia Pacific project. Based in Halifax, Canada.
- 15Years in software
- 14Team size led
- 80%Efficiency gain on data masking
- 40%Testing coverage improvement
- 10+Multi-table DBs synthesized
- 50%Query-time reduction (Gen AI mining)
Tools, languages, and frameworks I reach for.
A working subset — happy to learn what your stack needs.
15 years across QA, TDM, and Gen AI.
Cognizant since 2011, leading the Gen AI charge since 2018.
Senior Associate
·Cognizant Technology Solutions· Halifax, Canada / India2018 — PresentLed a 14-person team across QA, Test Data Management, and Generative AI for US healthcare insurance clients.
- Built Data Masking Automation Framework with IBM Optim — 80% efficiency improvement
- Generated synthetic data for 10+ multi-table SQL databases — 40% testing coverage gain
- Built Gen AI data mining solution (NL → SQL) — 50% query-time reduction
- Built Gen AI KM bot + evaluation portal with LangChain + Azure OpenAI — 30% retention boost
Associate
·Cognizant Technology Solutions· India2015 — 2018Led requirement gathering and design reviews. Planned tests for waterfall + Agile.
- End-to-end test planning across waterfall and Agile
- UFT-based automation for SIT and end-to-end testing
- VBA macro tooling for test data setup
Programmer Analyst
·Cognizant Technology Solutions· India2011 — 2015Wrote SQL across source systems, managed defects end-to-end in JIRA.
- SQL queries across multiple source tables
- Defect management in JIRA
- Agile ceremonies and status reporting
Projects that shipped — with measurable impact.
Most of these were built inside Cognizant for US healthcare insurance clients. AI-Farm is public and award-winning.
AI-Farm
— IBM Call for Code 2020 — Best Asia Pacific ProjectIoT + IBM Watson detecting plant diseases from live photos and optimizing farm resource usage.
Gen AI Data Mining
— Natural language ? SQL across multi-table databasesGen AI solution turning plain-English questions into SQL queries — cut query time by 50%.
GenCare AI — Patient Insights
— 1st prize, internal provider hackathonAzure OpenAI tool generating prognosis suggestions and lifestyle recommendations from patient smartwatch data.
KM & Evaluation Portal
— Gen AI knowledge management at scaleLangChain + Azure OpenAI KM bot. 30% retention boost, 25% faster onboarding, 5,000+ assessments/yr.
Synthetic Data Gen Portal
— ML-based synthetic data with referential integrityPython + ML generating synthetic test data preserving referential integrity across multi-table schemas.
Certifications.
Generative AI Fundamentals Specialization
ISTQB Certificate in Software Testing
DIAT Certified Artificial Intelligence Professional
Awards and honors.
IBM Call for Code 2020 — Best Asia Pacific Project
AI-Farm: IoT + Watson plant disease detection.
Best Innovator Award '23
Recognized for shipping Gen AI products that improved delivery quality.
Associate of the Month / Associate of the Quarter
Recognized multiple times by Cognizant's Talent Management group.
Let's build something.
Open to interesting Gen AI, QA-automation, and TDM conversations. I respond within a couple of business days.